Example sentences of "even [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disconcertingly to those who remember him as Old Stoneface , he even laughs occasionally now . |
| 2 | Even ripped up the chairs with a knife . |
| 3 | You see , Batman sounds good , looks good and even plays well , but the levels tend to last a little too long ; a password system would have been welcome . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you must have had an accident — I even checked out the hospitals this morning . ’ |
| 5 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 6 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 7 | He was rarely home , even Pat only went to his flat three or four times . |
| 8 | Even drawing up proposals for recycling waste materials in Britain requires ten sub-committees . |
| 9 | Even broken up , each piece of IBM is as big as most companies on the outside . |
| 10 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 11 | A few of the more level headed ones , obviously relieved at the prospect of imminent rescue from the evil sect which had ensnared them , even joined in and lent a hand . |
| 12 | If one were to pursue the analogy with Freud rigorously , Althusser is even suggesting here that the primacy of the economic ( ego ) is a delusion , and that the superstructure ( unconscious ) is the more fundamental determining force , or at the very least that they are equally overdetermined . |
| 13 | One of the thematic optional units ( perhaps even taught backwards ) could serve the same purpose . |
| 14 | Even using apparently direct measures of morbidity is problematical , as reporting may be different between social groups , especially in response to general questions such as the ‘ limiting longstanding sickness ’ item in the general household survey and 1991 census . |
| 15 | The intrusive chronicling ‘ I ’ ca n't even make up his mind about numbers . |
| 16 | It could not even make up its mind . |
| 17 | They should be reminded too that canned baked beans in tomato sauce are highly nutritious and can be a quick and convenient addition to many main meals or can even make quite a good meal on their own if they are served on buttered toast . |
| 18 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 19 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 20 | Scores of supply vessels , tugs and survey ships filled every nook and cranny and even spilled over into the fish docks . |
| 21 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 22 | He waved his ID and smiled and the clerk did n't even jack in to check it . |
| 23 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 24 | A good whack gives a bad ache and may even double up your opponent . |
| 25 | Even darting off to foreign places can be a waste of time , so he delegates this to his deputies . |
| 26 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 27 | So he had not destroyed most of the buildings , along with their inhabitants , had even erected more and improved the walls and defences . |
| 28 | Pins and needles can even hurt so much that we would almost prefer to let the leg sleep on . |
| 29 | It was as if we had n't even parted really . |
| 30 | And then his own special moment of elation : the overture , the rustle , the curtain up , and suddenly his tacky , ragtag little chorus was out there , looking wonderful , moving well , even singing better ! |